Japan, South Korea, India and other Southeast Asian countries which associate their security and economic well-being with the role of the US in the Asia-Pacific region worry about the isolationist tendencies in the electoral rhetoric of the US president-elect Donald Trump. More than once, Donald Trump had mentioned that Japan and South Korea should put more effort into their own defence and maintaining US troops stationed on their soil, and that if they dont increase funding, US military outfits could be recalled, giving these countries an opportunity to develop their ownnuclear arsenalsand counter threats coming from China and North Korea. With the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, Japan and South Korea had committed to refrain from buying and manufacturing nuclear weapons. This is one of the reasons why these countries seek US military aid.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine filed a lawsuit in the UN International Court of Justice against Russia within the framework of the International Convention for the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism and the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, says the site of the Foreign Minister. This is done on the instructions of the President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko, issued on 16 January.

Alexander Lukashenko on 9 January signed a decree № 8 "On the establishment of visa-free entry and exit of foreign nationals." The document establishes visa-free entry to Belarus for a period not exceeding 5 days at the entrance through the checkpoint "National Airport Minsk" for citizens of 80 countries, - reported the press service of the President of Belarus.

The US House of Representatives approved a bill on establishing an inter-departmental body, the purpose of which would be to resist Russian attempts of "influencing the people and the governments" of other countries, - reported the Associated Press.